Henry Corbin

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Henry Corbin
Born14 April 1903 (1903-04-14)
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Henry Corbin (14 April 1903 – 7 October 1978)

Mulla Sadra Shirazi. With works such as Histoire de la philosophie islamique (1964), he challenged the common European view that philosophy in the Islamic world declined after Averroes[2] and Avicenna
.

Born into a

esoterically expressed older perennial insights related to Zoroastrianism and Platonism
.

Corbin regularly spent time in

Muhammad Husayn Tabatabai and Seyyed Hossein Nasr. He also became prominent in the European Eranos circle of scholars initiated by Carl Jung, whose theories (such as the collective unconscious and active imagination) he appreciated. Aside from Islamic thought, Corbin wrote on Christian mysticism, especially Emanuel Swedenborg and the Holy Grail.[5]

Life and work

The philosophical life and career of Corbin can be divided into three phases. The first is the 1920s and 1930s, when he was involved in learning and teaching

School of Illumination in Istanbul. The last phase begins in 1946 and lasts until his death, in which he studied and reintroduced eastern and Islamic philosophy.[6]

In 1933 he married

Arabia at the École Pratique des Hautes Études in Paris. From the 1950s on he spent autumn in Tehran, winter in Paris and spring in Ascona
.

The three major works upon which his reputation largely rests in the

English speaking world were first published in French in the 1950s: Avicenna and the Visionary Recital, Creative Imagination in the Sufism of Ibn 'Arabi and Spiritual Body and Celestial Earth. His later major work on Central Asian and Iranian Sufism appears in English with an Introduction by Zia Inayat Khan as The Man of Light in Iranian Sufism. His magnum opus is the four volume En Islam Iranien: Aspects spirituels et philosophiques. It has been translated into Persian twice by Dr Enshollah Rahmati and Reza Kuhkan from French (the 4th volume being still untranslated).[7] He died on 7 October 1978.[1][8]

Main themes

There are several main themes which together form the core of the

Divine
.

His

Creation Spirituality, and the figure of the Angel Holy Spirit is similar to what is sometimes called the Cosmic Christ.[9]

Legacy and influence

Corbin's ideas have continued through colleagues, students and others influenced by his work. These include the following prolific scholars of

Iranian revolution was shaped by the scholarship of Louis Massignon and Henry Corbin. [14] The American literary critic Harold Bloom claims Corbin as a significant influence on his own conception of Gnosticism, and the American poet Charles Olson was a student of Corbin's Avicenna and the Visionary Recital. Corbin's friends and colleagues in France have established L'Association des Amis de Henry et Stella Corbin[15] for the dissemination of his work through meetings and colloquia, and the publication of his posthumous writings.[16][17]

Corbin's work has been criticized by a number of writers, including Steven M. Wasserstrom. Corbin's scholarly objectivity has been questioned on the basis of both a

elitist in both his politics and his spirituality. Other writers, such as Lory and Subtelny, have written to defend Corbin.[18][19]

Selected bibliography

  • Avicenna and the Visionary Recital. Princeton University Press, 1960.
  • Histoire de la philosophie Islamique. Gallimard, 1964. (Re-issued by Kegan Paul in 1993 as History of Islamic Philosophy
    ISBN 0-7103-0416-1
    ..)
  • Creative Imagination in the Sufism of Ibn 'Arabi. Princeton University Press, 1969. (Re-issued in 1998 as Alone with the Alone.)
  • En Islam Iranien: Aspects spirituels et philosophiques (4 vols.). Gallimard, 1971–73.
  • Spiritual Body and Celestial Earth: From Mazdean Iran to Shi'ite Iran. Princeton University Press, 1977.
  • Le Paradoxe du Monothéisme. l'Herne, 1981.
  • Cyclical Time and Ismaili Gnosis. KPI, 1983.
  • L'Homme et Son Ange: Initiation et Chevalerie Spirituelle. Fayard, 1983.
  • Face de Dieu, Face de l'homme: Hermeneutique et soufisme. Flammarion, 1983.
  • Temple and Contemplation. KPI, 1986.
  • The Man of Light in Iranian Sufism. Omega Publications, 1994.
  • Swedenborg and Esoteric Islam. Swedenborg Foundation, 1995.

Documentaries

See also

References

  1. ^
    Encyclopaedia Iranica
    .
  2. ^ Corbin, Henry. Encyclopedia of Religion.
  3. ISBN 2851970399
    . English translation of the entire interview with Philippe Nemo courtesy of L'Association des Amis de Stella et Henry Corbin. Quoted in Cheetham, Tom, The World Turned Inside Out, p. xi.
  4. ^ "Biographical post-scriptum to a philosophical interview". Translated by Evans-Cockle, Matthew. L'Association des Amis de Stella et Henry Corbin. Archived from the original on 2 December 2022. Retrieved 2 December 2022.
  5. ^ Carey, John (2011). "Henry Corbin and the Secret of the Grail" (PDF). {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  6. ISBN 978-0-691-00540-9
    .
  7. ^ Corbin, Henry (1978) En Islam Iranien: Aspects spirituels et philosophiques Gallimard, Paris, OCLC 6776221
  8. ^ Lakhani, M. Ali. The Corbin Trilogy by Thom Cheetham. Review in Sacred Web, Volume 23, Summer 2009.
  9. ^ Irib. ir, Henri Corbin view point on Isalam and Iran
  10. ^ Élisabeth Roudinesco, Jacques Lacan (Malden: Polity Press, 1999), 11, 89, 98, 435.
  11. ^ Jacques Lacan, The Ethics of Psychoanalysis. Ed. by Jacques Alain-Miller. Trans. by Dennis Porter (New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1992), 148-149.
  12. ^ Jacques Lacan, Le Triomphe de La Religion précédé de Discours aux Catholiques [The Triumph of Religion preceded by Discourse to Catholics] (Paris: Seuil, 2005), 65.
  13. ^ Abdesselem Rechak, Le grand secret de la psychanalyse (Mandeure: self-published, 2020).
  14. ISBN 978-0-8166-9949-0
    .
  15. ^ "Association des amis de Henry et Stella Corbin – Site officiel de Henry Corbin". Retrieved 2021-02-08.
  16. ^ Amis Corbin (trans. Friends of Corbin) in French
  17. ^ Henry Corbin and the Resolution of Modern Problems by Recourse to the Concept of the Imaginal Realm,by SEYYED MOHSEN MIRI, pdf
  18. ^ Lory, Pierre (1999). Review of Wasserstrom's book.
  19. ^ Subtelny, Maria E. “History and Religion: The Fallacy of Metaphysical Questions (A Review Article).” Iranian Studies: March 2003, 36(1): 91-101.

Further reading

  • Adams, Charles J. "The Hermeneutics of Henry Corbin," in Approaches to Islam in Religious Studies, Martin, Ed., University of Arizona Press, 1985.
  • Addas, Claude. Quest for the Red Sulphur: The Life of Ibn 'Arabi. Trans. Peter Kingsley. Islamic Texts Society, 1993.
  • Algar, Hamid. "The Study of Islam: The Work of Henry Corbin." Religious Studies Review 6(2) 1980: 85–91.
  • Avens, Roberts. "The Subtle Realm: Corbin, Sufism and Swedenborg," in Immanuel Swedenborg: A Continuing Vision, Edited by Robin Larson. Swedenborg Foundation, 1988.
  • Amir-Moezzi, M., Christian Jambet and Pierre Lory, (eds). Henry Corbin: Philosophies et Sagesses des Religions du Livre. Brepols, 2005.
  • Bamford, Christopher. "Esotericism Today: The Example of Henry Corbin," in Henry Corbin, The Voyage and the Messenger: Iran and Philosophy. North Atlantic Books, 1998.
  • Bloom, Harold. Omens of Millennium: The Gnosis of Angels, Dreams and Resurrection. Riverhead Books, 1996.
  • Brown, Norman O., "The Prophetic Tradition," and "The Apocalypse of Islam," in Apocalypse and/or Metamorphosis. University of California Press, 1991.
  • Camilleri, Sylvain and Proulx, Daniel. « Martin Heidegger et Henry Corbin : lettres et documents (1930-1941) », in Bulletin heideggérien, vol. 4, 2014, p. 4-63.
  • Cheetham, Tom. The World Turned Inside Out: Henry Corbin and Islamic Mysticism. Spring Journal Books, 2003.
  • _____ Green Man, Earth Angel: The Prophetic Tradition and the Battle for the Soul of the World. SUNY Press, 2005.
  • _____ After Prophecy: Imagination, Incarnation and the Unity of the Prophetic Tradition. Lectures for the Temenos Academy. Spring Journal Books, 2007.
  • _____ All the World an Icon: Henry Corbin and the Angelic Function of Beings, North Atlantic Books, 2012.
  • _____ Imaginal Love: The Meanings of Imagination in Henry Corbin and James Hillman, Spring Publications, 2015.
  • Chittick, William. The Sufi Path of Knowledge: Ibn 'Arabi's Metaphysics of the Imagination. SUNY Press, 1989.
  • Chodkiewicz, Michel. An Ocean without Shore: Ibn 'Arabi, the Book and the Law. Trans. David Streight. Islamic Texts Society, 1993.
  • ______ Seal of the Saints: Prophethood and Sainthood in the Doctrine of Ibn 'Arabi. Trans. Liadain Sherrard. Islamic Texts Society, 1993.
  • Corbin, H. (1969). Creative Imagination in the Sufism of Ibn `Arabi. (Trans. R. Manheim. Original French, 1958.) Princeton, NJ. Princeton University Press.
  • Corbin, H. (1972). "Mundus Imaginalis, the Imaginary and the Imaginal". Spring, 1972 pp. 1–19. New York: Analytical Psychology Club of New York, Inc.
  • Elmore, Gerald. Islamic Sainthood in the Fullness of Time: Ibn al-'Arabi's Book of the Fabulous Gryphon. Brill, 1998.
  • Jambet, Christian, (Editor). Henry Corbin. Cahier de l'Herne, no. 39. Consacré à Henry Corbin, 1981.
  • _____ La logique des Orientaux: Henry Corbin et la science des formes. Éditions du Seuil, 1983.
  • Giuliano, Glauco. Il Pellegrinaggio in Oriente di Henry Corbin. Con una scelta di testi. Lavis (Trento-Italia), La Finestra editrice, 2003.
  • Giuliano, Glauco. Nîtârtha. Saggi per un pensiero eurasiatico. Lavis (Trento-Italia), La Finestra editrice, 2004.
  • Giuliano, Glauco. L'Immagine del Tempo in Henry Corbin. Verso un'idiochronia angelomorfica. Milano-Udine, Mimesis, 2009.
  • Landolt, Hermann. "Henry Corbin, 1903-1978: Between Philosophy and Orientalism," Journal of the American Oriental Society, 119(3): 484-490, 1999.
  • Morris, James. The Reflective Heart: Discovering Spiritual Intelligence in Ibn 'Arabi's Meccan Illuminations. Fons Vitae, 2005.
  • Nasr, Seyyed Hossein
    . “Henry Corbin: The Life and Works of the Occidental Exile in Quest of the Orient of Light,” ch. 17, in S.H. Nasr, Traditional Islam in the Modern World. KPI, 1987.
  • Shayegan, Daryush. Henry Corbin penseur de l'Islam spirituel, Paris, Albin Michel, 2010, 428 p.
  • Suhrawardi, Yahyá ibn Habash. The philosophy of illumination: A new critical edition of the text of Hikmat al-Ishraq, with English translation, notes, commentary, and introduction by John Walbridge and Hossein Ziai. Brigham Young University Press
    , 1999.
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